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I talked a bit to my youngest sister, she had just returned from a Christmas in Germany. She gave me some German chocolate she had bought before she left. I like giggling about German-language labelling on items.

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I want to start going to bed earlier, I keep going to bed late and napping during the day, not a practical routine for when I have to be at work. I feel rotten when i don't go to bed early, I'm caught in a cycle of going to bed too late and sleeping in.

God the people who smoke in the hallway are annoying. They've started spraying the hall with air freshener to mask the smell. Idiots. Tobacco is truly an evil substance, that it's so addictive.

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Gah. I am not too sure about this: the college instructor said that to get extra credit for the drawing course I did in university, they would need an official transcript, plus a course outline. Not just a "this course covered the basics of drawing": a week by week lesson plan of exactly what the course taught. Yikes.

First off, the course was a part two of two, that I never took the part one of: the part one was probably more practical drawing, but the one I took was best described as a "draw your dreams" course. Yep. We didn't do perspective or how to use a conte crayon or whatever. It dealt with expressing subconscious thoughts through drawing with pastel, or pencil, or whatever. We could draw basically anything, and the teacher guided us through expressing our thoughts. The teacher felt guilty a bit I think, because one day we had life drawing. Yikes. It was some dude in his 60s. I think if I were to do life drawing, that I'd rather become desensitized to it through a whole course's worth, not just one shocking day of it. :P

Second, I took the course in 1991. I severely doubt that the university has kept the course outline or lesson plan or whatever. And I don't even recall getting a handout of the course outline anyhow. It was some hippie teacher. Now I probably have this material still from History of Design, but I kind of doubt it, from "Draw Your Dreams". I kept all my notes, though finding them would probably take me an afternoon of digging.

So I emailed the Visual Arts dept., but I feel like I'm already wasting my time, and that I should get cracking and draw a bunch of new stuff incorporating the college course's material, I would pay $25, and some staff member would meet with me and go over what I had brought, and maybe I would get advanced standing for this course, depending on what they thought. I mean, I did 4 high school art courses, and by the time I got to the end, I imagine I covered the course material that I want to get credit for. I have gotten a weak start on this... gah.

It's bad enough that I'm doing a course in Photoshop and Illustrator. I took a course in Illustrator in 1997, and I retained a lot of my knowledge from re-drawing team logos for Rogers Community 10 hockey game graphics, I love using Illustrator and I'm somewhat geeky anyhow, so I just think, more and more, that I need an advanced course in it to get me caught up on newer features. I feel like this course will be like a course in how to use Microsoft Word. Zzzzzz. However QuarkXPress will be good... I took a course in it around teh same time as the other, but I haven't touched it since then. I have no immediate need for it, but it's good to know, in case I ever land a job doing some kind of print design.

I enjoyed the first class, though we didn't cover much, I just want to sort all this stuff out and end the little frustrations.